The digital archiving of music at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation

History, ideals, taxonomy

Abstract

In this article I offer a history of the digital music archive at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). Within the last decade, DR has complemented their music archive with an in-house digital music platform called /Diskoteket,1 on which I see not only a lively and educational space for making contextualized searches in regard to recorded and commercially released music, but also a determinative discourse on music information. As a conceptual point of departure I investigate the supposition that DR has an institutionalized understanding of music history, and building on this supposition I aim to throw light on the following question: how can an institutionalized music history at DR be traced in online music presentations?